News Round-Up

• “Trump heralds ‘dawn of new Middle East’ in historic speech at Knesset” – President Trump has trumpeted the dawn of a “new Middle East” during a speech before the Israeli Parliament, reports the Mail.
• “Labour ‘delusional’ for claiming UK was key player in Gaza peace deal” – The US ambassador to Israel has accused Labour of being “delusional” for claiming the UK played a key role in securing the ceasefire in Gaza, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
• “Palestinian who raped and murdered 13 year-old to be released” – A Palestinian man who raped a 13 year-old boy before beating him to death with an iron bar is among the prisoners to be freed by Israel under the hostage deal, reports the Mail.
• “Israeli hostage’s thin appearance as he reunites with girlfriend” – Israeli hostage Avinatan Or appeared distressingly thin as he was released from Hamas captivity, says the Mail.
• “Why Qatar and Turkey gave up on Hamas” – Traditional allies turned their back on Hamas after sensing Trump’s peace plan could work, writes Adrian Blomfield in the Telegraph.
• “Donald Trump is the real anti-fascist hero” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill hails Trump as the true anti-fascist for cornering a brutal organisation that was founded with the express intention of killing Jews.
• “Weakened Hamas clashes with rival clan” – Hamas has reportedly been “executing” members of the influential Dormush family in Gaza in an attempt to assert power, reports the Telegraph. 
• “We must never forget the ‘progressive’ betrayal of the Israeli hostages” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill explores why so many in the West turned their backs on the Jews seized by Hamas.
• “Town braces for more migrants amid plans to turn hotels into bedsits” – Plans have been submitted to turn two existing hotels in Bournemouth into so-called ‘houses of multiple occupation’ (HMOs) for asylum seekers, reports the Mail.
• “Don’t blame me for ‘Boriswave’, I took back control of borders” – Boris says Rishi Sunak failed to follow through with the Rwanda plan that could have stopped the boats, according to the Telegraph.
• “Police probed Reform UK councillor ‘born and bred’ in Britain” – A Reform UK councillor reported to police for saying she was “born and bred here” has had her case dropped after officers found “no evidence of criminality”, reports the Mail.
• “Farage vows no tax cuts before spending is curbed by Reform government” – A Reform government will not cut taxes until it has brought public spending under control, despite previously pledging to reduce the burden on families and business by £90 billion, says the Mail.
• “Reform is right to give up on ‘fag packet economics’” – Reform was right to get rid of a set of policies that often gave the impression they had been scribbled on the back of a fag packet, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “Bright private-school pupils are choosing Durham over ‘discriminatory’ Oxbridge” – With Oxbridge continuing to favour state-school applicants, Durham is fast becoming the top choice for elite students, says Julie Henry in the Telegraph.
• “While Britain abandoned North Sea oil over Net Zero, Norway cashed in and made billions” – Labour’s manifesto pledge not to explore new oil and gas fields is costing the country dear, writes Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
• “Claim: we’ve hit a climate change tipping point” – Reefs may be fragile, but history shows they’re surprisingly resilient, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Climate cult fantasy and duplicity precede COP30” – COP30 will be a circus of climate scares and costly green scams, predicts Paul Driessen in WUWT?
• “The end of Paris?” – The Paris Agreement has failed – and, without Paris, what hope remains for the UN’s climate change campaign? wonders Robin Guenier in Climate Scepticism.
• “The depth of climate knowledge” – Climate change isn’t flat, says Anthony J. Sadar in American Greatness – you need a three-dimensional view of the atmosphere, not the usual political spin and oversimplified “settled science”.
• “How fear replaced science” – The climate crisis has become less about science and more about fear, politics and profit, argues Mark Keenan on American Thinker.
• “All at sea” – Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue, writes John Aziz in Quillette.
• “France contemplates the end of the Fifth Republic” – Macronism is imploding and the entire French political system could die with it, warns Henry Samuel in the Telegraph.
• “Germany strips Palestinian of citizenship after he celebrated Hamas” – A Palestinian man is to be stripped of his newly granted German citizenship after posting a photo showing support for Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
• “Swedish Deputy PM says the country must ban the burqa ‘while we can’” – The Deputy PM of Sweden has called for a burqa ban “while we can” as she hit out at the country’s “failed integration”, says the Mail.
• “Netherlands seizes Chinese-owned microchip maker to protect national security” – The Dutch Government has taken control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands, in a bid to safeguard the European supply of semiconductors for cars and other electronic goods, reports the BBC.
• “Dark money British political operatives interfering in American elections” – in the Disinformation Chronicle, Paul D. Thacker interviews Investigative reporter Paul Holden about his new book exposing the British misinformation unit set up by Morgan McSweeney and Imran Ahmed that moved to America to attack Musk, Kennedy and Trump.
• “China launches biggest crackdown on Christians for years” – Police in China have detained dozens of pastors from one of the country’s largest underground churches in the biggest crackdown on Christians since 2018, reports the Mail.
• “Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau were made for each other” – Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, both past their peaks, are perfectly matched by mediocrity, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
• “The Canterbury Cathedral graffiti isn’t transgressive” – In the Spectator, David Shipley slams Canterbury Cathedral’s ‘Hear Us’ exhibition as a LinkedIn-style desecration of English Christianity masquerading as art.
• “The tiresome, tedious desecration of Canterbury Cathedral” – That spray-can urban-scrawl installation is the Church of England’s Jaguar moment, says Simon Evans in Spiked.
• “The Donald: ‘Where’s the United Kingdom?’ Starmer: ‘Behind you, as usual’” – Watch Sir Keir go red-faced at the Gaza peace summit as he awkwardly thought Trump was inviting him on stage to speak, before Trump turned his back on him, leaving Starmer to scuttle back into his box.

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